the only question for me is: why would anyone develop a need to have this thing. it does nothing other, cheaper tools won't do better. it is a fancy overhyped gadget for the distinguished gentleman who already has everything... but common sense.

Probably in your MS world. I have machines that were originally running Debian Woody and were upgraded over the years to now run Lenny without a clean install in between. I believe the hardware will finally fail before an upgrade.
Am i asking for trouble? Don't mind if i do.

i had to manually fetch hdd driver, audio driver plus network driver on my last xp install. i already installed debian (lenny) on that same system. everything worked right away.
people who claim that everything just works with windows and they always have to fiddle with linux usually compare a pre-installed and configured windows box with a manual linux install.

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from the well-here's-your-problem dept.

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samzenpuson Friday September 19, 2008 @01:26PM
from the sell-outs dept.

There is no shortage of comments about us selling out or running advertisements as stories. As you might expect there is no shortage of mail with the same theme. What I enjoy most about them is all the different corporate entities and sometimes political parties, that we are supposedly working for. If even half of them were true, I would have a stack of W-2s as long as my arm every year for the tax man. The truth of the matter is, nobody here sits in their Microsoft smart chair, talking on their minion iPhone, while playing in the Google money pool. (If someone knows how to get into the Google money pool, please send me a mail.) Conspiracy theories have been around as long as man, so I guess it should come as no surprise that Slashdot has a few of it's own. Read below to find out who is pulling our strings.